From the annals of Atheism Joseph McCabe One of the giants of not only English Atheism, bu

From the annals of Atheism
Joseph McCabe
One of the giants of not only English Atheism, but world
Atheism, Joseph McCabe left a legacy of aggressive Atheist and
antireligious literature that remains fresh and insightful today.
His many works -- he wrote nearly 250 books -- could constitute a
library of Atheism by themselves.
Born in 1867, Joseph McCabe became a Franciscan monk at the
age of nineteen. But disgusted with his fellow monks and the Christian
doctrine, he left the priesthood for good on February 19, 1896.
Not long afterwards, he began to write -- first against the
priesthood itself and then for the position of Atheism. He was one
of the founding members of Britain's Rationalist Press Association,
and was a prolific writer for Haldeman-Julius Publications. He was
also a much-respected speaker, giving, by his own estimate, three
or four thousand lectures in the United States, Australia, and
Great Britain by the age of eighty. Still fighting against the
injustices and dishonesties of religion, he died on January 10,
1955, at the age of eighty-seven. The epitaph he requested was ``He
was a rebel to his last day.''
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